War Poems
- ISBN-10
- 0007177461
- ISBN-13
- 9780007177462
- Category
- War poetry
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Collins Educational
- Author
- Christopher Martin
Description
Contemporary prose extracts from letters, journals, essays and newspapers help the reader to understand the background to the poems in this guide to the war poetry and poets from the 1800s to the modern day.
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